... getting real Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism chris berry ince 1989 innovative documentary has been one of the hallmarks of Chinese film and video. Most of the...

...IDENTITIES FIXED IN PLACE: ANCESTRAL VILLAGES Chapter 1 AND CHINESE/CHINESE AMERICAN ROOTS A Toyota Coaster minibus bumps along a narrow road through the Chinese countryside, dodging potholes and bicyclists. Inside the bus is a group of ten Chinese Americans, some...

...THE DESCENDANTS OF THE DRAGON GATHER: Chapter 5 THE YOUTH FESTIVAL AS ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND CHINESE AMERICAN OTHER In the preceding chapters I have sketched out the terms that frame the ‘‘forged’’ relationship between Chinese Americans and China. In...

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...The Trade in Chinese Laborers Richard Dana As the slave trade was abolished under British pressure and the demise of African slavery began to appear inevitable, Caribbean sugar planters desperately sought new sources of cheap labor. In the nineteenth century, slaves were imported from the...

...9. Blending Chinese in America Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Amy Tan "Banana," Monkey Brain Feast, and Fortune Cookie As a group of "strangers from a different shore" (Takaki 1989), Chinese immigrants were the first Asians to see their "entry denied...

... Ω Martha Chew Sánchez Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Mestizaje through the Chinese Presence in Mexico efore the rebellion in Chiapas, the key word in Mexico Bwas ‘‘modernization the illusion that Mexico’s eco- nomic stability was around the corner with the signing of nafta...

...Anuradhapura: Fifth-Century Observations by a Chinese Buddhist Monk Fa-Hien Fa-Hien, Hsuan Tsang, and I Tsing, three Chinese Buddhist monastic pilgrims who traveled extensively throughout South and Southeast Asia between the fifth and seventh centuries CE, left detailed...

... Introduction The Making and Remaking of the Chinese Model CHINESE SOCIALISM CAN BEST BE GRASPED AS A MODERN PROJECT THAT has sought to develop by its own unique means into its own unique type, always conscious of...

... communication and interaction, dictated by market forces and their ideology of free trade, which no longer preserves any "Chinese walls" or permits effective "delinking" by regions from the globe. The continuities between domestic affairs, on the one hand, and external, "epochally specific transnational...

... Liberalism and Its Chinese Fate The communist dreamland ofliberated individuals and universal solidarity cracked in the People's Republic when the regime alienated itself from the population by allowing bureaucratic privileges on the one hand and exces• sive persecution of opponents on...

... 63 of 314 Chapter Two Regulating National Markets: Chinese Censorship and The Bitter Tea of General Yen fter a series of complaints from the Chinese vice consul in Los Ange...

... A NEW CHINESE WORKING CLASS We are a mass of dagongzai Coming from the north, coming from the west At first we didn’t know what dagongzai meant Now we know, toiling from the sunrise to the sunset Toiling with drops of blood and sweat...

... . . . . Chinese Politics . . In 1998, a global Chinese (Huaren) website mobilized worldwide protests against the attacks on Chinese in Indonesia that had been triggered by the Asian financial crisis. This set of events provides the...

... . . . Reengineering the . . . . ‘‘Chinese Soul’’ in...

...3 GETTING THE MEASURE OF TOMORROW Chinese and Chicano Americas under the Racial Gaze, 1934–1935 and 1942–1944 Victor Jew In the fifth year of the Great Depression, an anthropologist thought he saw a wonderful opportunity. What if a population of...

...A P P e n D I X Chinese Characters for Authors’ Names and Titles of Works Ah Ying  阿英 Dai Wangshu  “Ai”  愛 Dalu xinbao  “Alang zaijian Alang”  Danren lüxing  Anxiang miye  “Dao Zong Lihe”  Ba...

... Introduction bearing witness Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of ‘‘Transformation’’ (Zhuanxing...

... tear down the city Reconstructing Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art sheldon h. lu hai-na (literally, the act of ‘‘tearing down is truly...